Combination space and water heater and incinerator unit



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COMBINATION SPACE AND WATER HEATER AND INCINERATOR UNIT Filed Dec. 12, 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 l I W7" 1 42 ""l? i? INVENTOR. 611m ,4. C. 54mg BY S4 ajhg A TTUENE) of the houses.

Patented May 19 1953 UNITED" STATES PATENT orFzcE COMBINATION SPACE AND WATER HEATER AND INCINERATOR UNIT Guyon L. C. Earle, Forest Hills, N. Y. Application December 12,1947, Serial No. 791,255

2 Claims.

This invention relates to heating devices and more specifically to a combination unit for space heating and incineration purposes.

Modern housing is so expensive that there is a ready demand for cellarless houses in order to save the cost of labor and material required in making a basement. Since the heating plant is normally in the basement, its omission requires that the house heater be located elsewhere. Oil, gas or coal furnaces have accordingly been placed in utility rooms which are often near the kitchens The present invention relates to a compact house heater (which may be gas, oil or electric) and incinerator unit which while suitable for use in a utility room is also well adapted for inclusion in a combination kitchenutility unit located in the kitchen.

It is an object of this invention to reduce the space required for house heaters and incinerators.

It is another object of this invention to simplify the plumbing and other connections to and from a house heater and an incinerator.

It is still another object of this invention to combine within a single package a house heater and an incinerator. I

It is a further object of this'invention to provide a combination house heater-incinerator unit one or more of the walls of which serve as side members for other elements of a kitchen orutility unit.

\ Other objects of the invention and various features thereof will be apparent from the follo ing description and the claims.

The various objects are attained by providing, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a single package combination house heater and incinerator unit which is particularly adapted to be the corner member of a turn-corner kitchen-utility unit although the house heater and incinerator unit may be located elsewhere. It comprises a box-like container having four insulated vertical walls and insulated top and bottom members which container serves as an enclosure fora house heater (including a space heater and a hot water heater), and a separate incinerator. The space heater comprises the customary hollow metal heat passages in contact with air, water or steam, heated by gas, oil orelectricity. These heating elements are located in the lower portion of the enclosure. A heating coil for hot water may be'placed in the house heater or be'a converitiona1 side arm heater in the enclosure. Also in' this upper portion is a' hot water tank and an incinerator for garbage and trash. Preferably,- piping from the heating 2 coil in the house heater to the hot water tank passes through the incinerator to dry garbage placed therein. The incinerator access and clean out doors can be reached from a hallway or room adjacent the kitchen or, in an alternative arrangement, from the kitchen. "The incinerator and space heater are preferably connected toth'e same flue system or, if this is not desired, to separate flue systems. If gas or oil are utilized for heating, much piping can be saved because of the close spacing between the incinerator and space heaters and if electricity is used for this purpose, a saving in wire and perhaps other material can be realized. Since all the heating elements have a common insulated enclosure, insulation can be saved. Because of itsshape, it can be used in a corner and its wall used as the side or end members of kitchen and utilityunit sections savingspace which otherwise cannot readily be used for other purposes.

The invention will be more readily understood by referring to the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view, with portions in'crosssection, of a turn-corner combination kitchenutility unit embodying a single-package house heater and incinerator unit in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is an elevation view. with portions in cross-section along the lines 2-2 in Fig. 1,'of the arrangement of Fig. 1 above the lines 2-2;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation view, with portions in cross-section along the lines 33 in Fig. 1, taken from the left and looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 4 is a partial plan view, with portionsin cross-section, of an arrangement like that of Fig. 1 except that the positioning'of the elements in the single-package unit has been modified and the doors to the incinerator are differently placed;

and v Fig. 5 is a front elevation view of the arrangement of Fig. 4.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, Figs. 1, 2 and 3 show, by way of example for purposes of illustration, a single-package house heater and incinerator unit It in accordance with the invention. This unit I0 preferably but not necessarily forms an element of a kitchen assemblage comprising a kitchen-unit l I preferably of the set-back or L-type disclosed for example in Patent 2,349,541, issued May 23, 1944 to Guyon L. C. Earle, and a utility unit [2 also preferably of the set-back type. The units Ill,

The unit rests on a recessed base end member 23 so that no dirt catthingfiieracks:

or gaps are present. It is also preferably placed next to or near a back wall 34. since the detail'ed construction of a suitable Leshap'ed kitchen unit and the advantages thereofare setforth' iii'the Earle patent identified above, no further descrip tion thereof need be givenhere.

Theeutility-unit'1-2 comprises :aJow-ireeze section 'l4- and a washing; machi-ne section 2-5. I Like the? toluene-unit! l, vthe.= utility unit -l2ahas- (see Riga-'5) a lower-"portion- 26 an-intermediate: portioni 2 and an upper? particularv The table -topmember-"28 has breaksztherein for-the low-freeze unitaccessv door or-lidJO-andthe access or soap door 3% f-orz the clothesv Washing. machine 2.5. Utility unit sections,- of the type disclosed: above fill'E dGSC'l'ib'Bda-ifl greater detail in an application oir-Guyon LwC Earle Serial No. 629,680; filed Nov. 19, 194:5, which application abandoned. -"I"heuti'1-i ty unit is mountedon are-- cessed-base 3Z andis positioned adjacent a wall- 33 The'wa'l'l 33 has-awbreakstherein sothat-the heatersincineratorrunit Ill-can be serviced or utilized.- from the side. of'-- the. Wall; remote from theckitc'hen s-uch as=in a ha-llWaiyon-from the exterior otsthebu-ilding f or -exa-mplw The space between the kitchenL-unih I'lland thee-utility unit-t l2 whioh: ise-occnpiedby." the heater incinerator I is; because--of--- its nature; not verysuitable: for. cabinet spacebecause, as showmin Fig.1 only; limited access ca n be lradatoait-.frorn-'thef ki-tchen-- andtthat' only from-a5 lim'i-ted area adj acent the upper and inter mediate portions'fof thekitchenandsutility The: unit: H'l rthus :ontyz'uses spacex'in the -kitchen which is not fully satisfactory forcabinet'space;

Moreover; it :will beappreciated-strum the drawingsrthat twolof' itswerticalwalls and-Al .serve as and members for: the.kitchen and-txutility units H 831G312 rrespectively, andcthus -prevent crevices which picleup dirtw The heater-i-incineratoc unit -w comprises an enclosure member 46 having four verticalvwalls:

49 441, *lieand la which are heavilyr-insulated and a topim ember :44-and a bottom membe-rr4 5 which are'also insulated; The-horizontal cross se'ction' is: substantially a1 square 1 although actuallythe walls 44- and- 43:tneslightly wider (by; the width; of the wall 33) than the walls 40 and 42. The enclcsu-rewmembenfi has 'anrupper portionifland a lower portion 48 which are preferably-septa rated-by a partition rn-emberfll.

A spaceheater or: air-conditioning" unit 50 "is placed in the -lower: portion 48 -ofcthe unit= IOand this-may be of?" any! 'w-elleknown typer It may; for example; comprise:amultiplicity-ofrmetal coils through which -air,- water or: steam is circulated on heat) passages in contact; with these heating elementsthe fluid being heated anyfsuitable means-51 beingufed with gaseous or oil fuel-by, pipes 52\ v approaching l the unit fromunder the floor .153] Obviously,- electric heating meanscan 4. be used instead of oil or gas. If desired, any well-known type of air conditioning unitboth heating and coolingcan be located in the lower portion 48 instead of merely a space heater, as indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The heater or air conditioning unit is connected in circuit by means of pipe 61 with a hot Water heater 54 and a hot water tank 55 which are located in the 'upperfpo'rtloh fl of theieriolosure melhbm 46. If desired, the memberSM-and 55 carr-be separate from the circuit of the unit 50, the heater 51 being a side arm automatic heater. The member '50 is also connected to a flue member 56 be; or"not as desired, connected to a flue 5T for the incinerator to be described below.

For s'impl-icity in the drawings, the ducts and the cooling apparatus for the air conditioning system haven'otbeeh shown but these may be of any well-known type.

Also located Within the upper portion 41 of the enclosure member 45 is; an incinerator- 58 which has insulated 'walls, t-opandbottom= The walls of the incinerator need-noticeas heavily insulated as is usually the case because -the-outer enclosure 46 is insulatedl- A -heating.- means, 59 is suppliedwith oilor gaseous-fuel from the pipe 60: A-- mesh basket 61 holds the refuse- While it is-being burned; Access tortherincinerator isby the door 62--Which= is adjacent-a; doorfiiin-the wall 42=- (A corresponding lower doon 64- is also in i this wall. Lower access 'and. clean-out doors 65 and 56 are located in the lowerpart' at the incinerators- If the-heater 54' is-heated by' a coil et -on immersion type heaterin the space heater 50 (see- Fig. 30-; the pipe at iscaused:- as shown more specifically in Fig; 3,: to :pass through the incinerator 58,-.---therebyhelping: to -dry the garbage thereinr- In-the' arrangement-of Figs.- 4 and -5 the access a-ndclean-out doors 62'," 65-a'r-1d: 66 -are:-positioned sothat they can beeper-ledfrom the kitchensidei- This leads to asomewhat-difierent-arrangement of the member 54- and55' in-theupper portion but their connections aresim-ilar to-those-of the arrangement of Figs. 1, 2 and lt willflbeeppreciated that in the arrangement of the present -invention avery small 'floorarea is taken up by three complete utility items-space heater, hot water heater and tank, an incinerator-and this floor area is no more than would be; taken by. a space-heater a1one;-- Moreover;v if this :area-is the corner of a =turncor-ner kitchen utility unit, space which-is not suitable forother cabinet purposesissufiicientlyi utilized r Var-ious other modifications canbe made in the embodiments described-without departing; from the spirit of: the inventionfithescope of which is indicated inthe claims.

What is claimed is:

. 1. Ar single-package househeaten-and. incinerat'or unit: com-prising. a-n enclosurememberformedby vertical insulatedwa-lls -an insulatedtop, and aninsulated bottom, --said-. enclosure member havi-ngrupper and lower-portions; aspace heater located in saidlower portion,-- ai -hot water:- heater elementin said space-heater, anincinerator and-a-hot water-tank =located-in said upper portion andclosed piping vbetween said hot water heater elementand said hot Water tank; saidpiping. .passingathroughasaid incinerator tor dry garbage placed therein.

2. A single-package house heater and incinerator unit comprisingan enclosure memberformed by. vertical insulated walls, an insulated topand an'insulatedbottom; said enclosure memher having upper and lower portions, a space heater located in said lower portion, a hot water heater element in said space heater, an incinerator and a hot water tank located in said upper portion, closed piping between said hot water heater element and said hot Water tank, said piping passing through said incinerator to dry garbage placed therein, and a common flue for said space heater and said incinerator above said insulated top.

G. L. C. EARLE.

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